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Buckinghamshire, England, Genealogy Resources

 

Welcome To Buckinghamshire Genealogy

Welcome to anyone researching their ancestors in Buckinghamshire.

This site aims to be a collection of links to the main resources for such research.

Buckinghamshire Family History/Genealogical Societies
Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies
Mailing lists for Buckinghamshire
Surname interest list for Buckinghamshire
Maps of Buckinghamshire
Programs giving parishes nearby to one another
Register office addresses
Buckinghamshire GenWeb Query board


Resources available for genealogical research in Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire Family History/Genealogical Societies

Buckinghamshire FHS

Buckinghamshire Genealogical Society

Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies

The Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies holds the original historic documents relating to the county.

They will answer enquiries relating to holdings - contact them at archives@buckscc.gov.uk

Mailing lists for Buckinghamshire

BUCKS-L@rootsweb.com and ENG-BUCKINGHAMSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com are mailing lists for family history related to Buckinghamshire, England.

You may subscribe & search & browse their archives from

http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/ENG/BUCKS.html

and

http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/ENG/ENG-BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.html

Surname interest list for Buckinghamshire

This is a list of surnames under research in Buckinghamshire, cross-referenced to place & date.
Check for researchers with similar interests to yourself, and add your own interests.

Maps of Buckinghamshire and beyond

A map showing the parishes of Buckinghamshire is linked from
http://met.open.ac.uk/group/kaq/bgs.htm

Maps of most of the UK relating to the late 1800s can be found at
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/

For locating any place, even a small village, use http://uk.multimap.com/ .
This gives a detailed zoomable map, including a scale.  It even has contour colouring!

On the national level, a very pretty map of the counties of Britain is at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Britain.html

Programs giving parishes nearby to one another

Programs listed here enable one to find parishes within a certain radius of a given parish, and to calculate the distance between parishes.

Register office addresses

Register office addresses are listed here.
If you cannot find the office that you are looking for in the index, you may find the web pages Registration Districts in England and Wales a useful aid, or the alphabetical index of place-names, showing the counties and districts in which they were situated for the period 1837-1930

Buckinghamshire GenWeb Query board

Please feel free to post your query to the Buckinghamshire GenWeb Query board.


This website is part of the EnglandGenWeb project.
The webmaster is Wendy Archer.
There is a comparable page for Buckinghamshire
as part of the genUKI hierachy for
genealogy in the UK & Ireland

EnglandGenWeb
BritishIslesGenWeb
WorldGenWeb

genUKI Buckinghamshire
genUKI

Comments and Other Information

Last updated on: Monday, 09-Feb-2004 11:51:42 MST

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